September 12, 2006

“Running Through History” an exhibit by Lucinda Luvaas will display at Brandstater Gallery, Visual Arts Center at La Sierra University (4500 Riverwalk Parkway, Riverside, CA) September 26-October 19, 2006. An artist reception will take place October 9, 6-8 pm. Contact Brandstater Gallery at 951-785-2959. Parking and admission are free.

The exhibit features video pieces, video composites and oil paintings. Luvaas' work is timely and provocative-asking questions of the past that resonate with today's often volatile world. Luvaas wants to investigate history, hoping to connect with past events in a more meaningful way. When examining her work it is impossible not to make connections with today's current events and our own roles in history.

“The only way that history can resonate for us as individuals is if we can experience, empathize, or in some way personally 'be' in the period we are learning about: we must absorb the atmosphere of the times we’re investigating in order to truly appreciate them,” says Luvaas.

“For several years, I’ve been thinking about exploring history as a subject for my work, but didn’t really have a handle on how to approach it.

'I started working on a video called, 'Running Through History,' wanting to use myself as a witness, as a sort of voyeur/observer--running through the passage of time; through varied scenes that contain meaning for me personally, as well as scenes that are pertinent to our history as a nation, as a people, and finally, as a world.”

Press Comment: "This is an artist who is in touch with her unconscious mind, and not afraid to take a good look at what is there. Her extraordinary insights, filtered through a perceptive female intelligence, are serious ones that are often hilariously conveyed." Mary Alice Cline, The Press Enterprise, Riverside, CA